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Epinicians (9.10-9.20)

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There the heroes with red shields, the best of the Argives, held games for the first time in honor of Archemorus, whom a fiery-eyed monstrous dragon killed in his sleep: a sign of the slaughter to come.
Powerful fate! The son of Oicles could not persuade them to go back to the streets thronged with good men. Hope robs men [of their sense]:
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it was she who then sent Adrastus son of Talaus
to Thebes ⋯ to Polyneices ⋯ The mortal men who crown their golden hair with the triennial garland from those glorious games in Nemea are illustrious;

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